The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
